Installing Ceylon IDE

The M5 release of the Ceylon IDE is available from our Eclipse plugin update site. Note that the version of the Ceylon compiler embedded in this release is compatible with the Ceylon M5 “Nesa Pong” command line tools.

Please report any issue in our issue tracker. Note that if Ceylon IDE doesn't work at all, the problem is probably that Eclipse is not executing on a Java 7 VM. (see information about eclipse.ini)

Installing from the update site

Here's what you need to do to install the IDE:

  1. Start with a clean install of Eclipse 3.7 Indigo or of Eclipse 4.2 Juno running on Java 7. Mac OS users must install Juno and make Java 7 the default virtual machine using the Java Preferences application located in /Applications/Utilities. Other OSes can follow the information about selecting the JVM in the eclipse.ini if needed.
  2. Go to Help > Install New Software ....
  3. Enter the URL http://ceylon-lang.org/eclipse/updatesite/ in the Work With field and hit Enter.
    eclipseupdatesite
  4. Click Select All and then Finish.
  5. Wait while Eclipse installs the Ceylon plugin, and then restart Eclipse when prompted.
  6. Go to Help > Welcome to Ceylon to get started.
    welcomepage

Installing from the development (unstable) update site

If you want to try the latest build of the IDE before it is released, you have to use the development update site:

http://ceylon-lang.org/eclipse/development/

Beware that this is an unstable and unfinished version.